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2title: UniCovoit's intial release!
3description: After four and half months, countless hours of work and 872 commits, the carpool app made for students by students is finally out!
4image: /blog/unicovoit.png
5date: 2022-09-04
6authors:
7 - name: finxol
8tags:
9 - Release
10 - UniCovoit
11published: true
12---
13
14I often use carpooling applications to get home to my parents.
15At my university, there is a student group chat that allows students to exchange and in particular to get in touch with travelers for carpooling.
16
17The process is quite cumbersome, only works if the driver sees the message before it gets lost in other conversations, and only reaches a small group of people.
18
19An idea then crossed my mind.
20It would be much easier to have an app like BlaBlaCar,
21but only between students and without the heavy fees charged by the company.
22
23So began the IUCovoit project, a contraction of the words IUT and Carpooling, later renamed UniCovoit, more inclusive of any university.
24
25I started working on the project a couple of weeks after getting the idea, just the time to let it settle in my head.
26I was also motivated by the fact that I had to isolate for a week after testing positive for Covid-19.
27Though times, they were...
28
29During that week, I spent basically every woken hour learning how to use Nuxt 2 and Vuetify.
30I chose these technologies for the very simple reason that someone at my university had used them extensively to build a website to access our timetables easier, which meant I had an exit strategy in case I got hopelessly stuck.
31I've got to say that was a pretty good idea for the beginning, it came in handy a couple times.
32
33When I finally got out, I continued working on the project, just not so intensively.
34
35I had to pause the work a few times as well because of uni work, ugh 😒.
36
37Then came the summer break, which weren't much of a break for the most part, as I was working tirelessly on UniCovoit.
38I wanted to be ready for a big launch at the beginning of September when we go back to university.
39
40While working over the summer was definitely worth it and I managed to finish everything on time, I am absolutely exhausted for September.
41
42Nonetheless, I am very proud to announce that UniCovoit is now open for business! (not literally business, I don't actually make any money)